Improvement in skeleton skirts



. UNITED 1 STATESy PATENT OFFICE9 WILLIAM H.- TOVERS, OF NE/"XOR-K,4 N. Y.

lMPRovEMENT IN sKELETo-N sam'rs.

Specilication formin/g part of Letters Patent No. 35,848, dated July 1862.

To all whom, l? may concern:

Be it known that I, 'WILLIAM H. TOWERS, of the city, county7 and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same reference being had tothe aecompanyng drawings, making -part` of this specification.

Figure lisa side view of the improved skirt. Fig. 2 is a top view ofV the4 upper part of the same.

Similar letters in the figures refer to corresponding parts,

In the hoop-skirt as now used it is attached to the person by a slim band or belt, which l outside and a substitute for corset-s, but also serve as a brace to support and always bold the bustle cf the hoop-skirt in its proper position.

The skirt proper7 A, may be made in the usual or most approvedmanner, and the small corset or brace B, Vwith bustle attached, is made part of the same in lieu of the usual belt, being stitfened and braced to the person in front in the same manner as tnc usual corset, and consequentlyanswering; tbc same purpose. It,nioreovcr,serves to uphold the bustle against the pressure of the skirts resting` upon it, as before stated,l by its braced forward part rising upward and acting as a stay t0 the whole extent of the bustle--l'iotll the side parts and back.

VhatI claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, isw

Combininfc,r a lioopsltirt and corset with bustle attached in one garment inthe manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

WM. H. TQWERS.

y Witnesses:

MAHER, J. A. Pensa. 

